United States Statutes at Large/Volume 1/3rd Congress/1st Session/Chapter 13
March 27, 1794
Chap. ⅩⅢ.—An Act allowing Major General La Fayette his Pay and Emoluments while in the service of the United States.
Allowance to General La Fayette.Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That there be allowed to Major General La Fayette the sum of twenty-four thousand, four hundred and twenty-four dollars, being the amount of the pay and emoluments of a major-general during the time he was in the service of the United States, and that the same be paid out of any monies which may be in the treasury and not otherwise appropriated.
Approved, March 27, 1794.